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[Marty Blaber <martin.blaber@gmail.com>]

Hi Anurag,

'Solid State Physics' by Ashcroft and Mermin is very good, as is 'Introduction to Solid State Physics' by Kittel. Both should give you enough information to build a Brillouin zone and determine the high symmetry points.

In the short term, here are two websites which are quite useful:
Crystal Structures
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/

For reciprocal space information including special points etc, have a look at the Bilbao Crystallographic Server (look under kvec)
http://www.cryst.ehu.es/

Cheers,

Marty

2009/2/15 Anurag Chaudhry <anuragchaudhry@yahoo.co.uk>

Hello Everyone,

I was reading the documentation for the bandstructure maker utility for ABINIT.  The explanation is very useful.

However I would like to know of a web resource (or any other source like book, ...) to know the special k-points to chose for a bandstructure plot for any given crystal space group.

For some well known space groups it is very easy to find the "special k-points" however for something like space group 148 (R-3H) of YI3 how to choose the reciprocal space k-points and the spacing between them.

any suggestions are very much appreciated.

best regards,
Anurag